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[Alexandr Korol]

in the nightly battle, reappeared on the horizon.” There is also a mention of the Sun God in Slavic mythology – this is Yarilo. “Each year, April among the Slavs began with spring festivals celebrating the rebirth of life. In Slavic villages, a young red-haired rider on a white horse would appear. He was dressed in a white mantle, with a wreath of spring flowers on his head, holding rye ears in his left hand, and urging his horse forward with his bare feet. This is Yarilo. His name, derived from the word ‘yar,’ has several meanings: 1) piercing spring light and warmth; 2) youthful, swift, and uncontrollable force; 3) passion and fertility.” Also, as I understand it, in Mexico there is the god Tonatiuh, which literally translates as “little Sun.” In Aztec mythology, he is the god of the sky and the Sun. “The famous Aztec calendar ‘Sun Stone’ – a huge basalt monolith with a diameter of 3.5 meters and weighing 24.5 tons – is kept in the Anthropological Museum in Mexico. It was once colorful. It reflects the ancient people’s understanding of the distant past. In the center of the stone is depicted Tonatiuh, the Maya Sun god of the current era. On the sides are symbols of the four preceding eras.” You see? That means that in the Mayan calendar, the main Sun god is depicted in the center, and on the four sides, the past four epochs are represented – I call them eras – and he stands at the head of them because his time has come. There is also a mention of the Sun God in Hinduism – this is the god Surya. “The worship of the Sun has been known since the Vedic period and continues to this day. Believers greet Surya each morning at dawn, turning their faces eastward and offering him water (or water from the Ganges), as well as flowers (red lotuses). Surya was revered as the bearer of light, a healer as well as the all-seeing eye of the gods and the celestial guardian. His attribute became a chariot drawn by seven horses...” – here, the matrix is simply arranged a little differently – “...representing the Sun’s rays. Surya’s wife was Sanjna, the daughter of the divine artisan Vishvakarma. Surya is sometimes presented as the father, husband, or beloved of the beautiful Ushas (Usha), the goddess of dawn. Most of Surya’s names were likely once the names of other solar deities (Savitar, Pushan, Savitri, Vivasvat, and others). They reflected different aspects of the solar cycle or its divine attributes, such as movement, protector of cattle, sunrise, and sunset. Eventually, they merged with Surya’s image and became his aspects. In the post- Vedic period, Surya lost his independent significance and became one of the world’s guardians – lokapalas – who oversee the cardinal directions. Along with him, the lokapalas included Indra (east), Agni (southeast), Yama (south), Varuna (west),